薅草锣鼓又称薅草号子、山锣鼓,是土家人在薅草季节进行集体劳动时,请打唱艺人一边敲锣打鼓,一边吼唱的一种田间民歌形式。自从上个世纪七八十年代之后,我几乎没有再见到过生长在田边地头的薅草锣鼓了。那种澎湃的热情与气势,那种对劳动的赞美与奖赏,那种对精神的安抚与照耀,只能回荡在心里与梦里了。鄂西长阳土家地区,盛产薅草锣鼓与长阳山歌。只是这两种喊歌形式,分为不同的地域。长阳以清江为界,分为前河与后 Tamarind gongs and drums, also known as Tamarix son, mountain gongs and drums, is Tujia in the hayakud season collective work, please sing percussion artists while drumming roar, while singing a form of field folk songs. Since the seventies and eighties of the last century, I hardly ever saw the gongs and drums growing in the fields. The kind of surging enthusiasm and momentum, the kind of praise and reward for labor, the kind of spiritual comfort and shine, can only echo in my heart and dreams. Western Hubei Changyang Tujia, abounds in gongs drums and Changyang folk songs. Only two forms of shouting, divided into different regions. Changyang to Qingjiang community, divided into the former river and after